The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-08
Farm and Garden Notes.

Farm and Garden Notes.
Insect powder is advocated as pro
lection against bugs on cucumber ane
melon vines.
For bark lice N. ]. Shepherd recon-
mendsa thorough washing with soft soap
made into suds.
bitches should not have a fall of more
than one foot in 100, or there will be
danger of washing.
As the warm weather advances SO the
tendency of fowls to breed vermin In
their nests increases.
Sprinkling the leaves with mixture OF
fine tobacco, pulverized sulphur and
plaster is recommended to drive away
the cabbage fly.
The Chicago Times says larger guam
tity of potatoes, and of better quality,
can be raised with chemical fertilizers
than with manure.
To have the best success with small
fruits, manure highly and give thorough
cultivation. Better raise 800 bushels
on one acre than on three.
Some apiarists assert that the linden
tree produces honey not only in great
abundance, but OF a better quality than
that yielded by white clover.
Considering the fact that large part
of even the best milk is water, the neces-
sity of giving COWS in milk only the best
water will be fully understood.
Insect powder loses its strength upon
exposure to the air. Therefore get It
fresh in small quantities when needed
for use, or keep it in a tight glass jar.
An observing writer says: Too often
farmers fail to realize how hard their
wives work, and how largely their own
success is the result of that poorly=ze-
Quilted toll.
Professor Wallace, Of England, says
that "a variety of live stock on the farm
is as good as a variety in cropping;
greater numbers can be Kept and the best
use made. of all food.
1t is certainly better, in trimming a
tree, to thin out the smaller branches
than to cut off the ends of all the limbs.
All bearing fruit trees require the sun
and good ventilation.
Much time is lost on the farm by not
doing all the teaming that may be done
before the busy seasons begin. There
should be no wood nor manure hauled IN
corn planting or harvest time.
While horses are shedding their coats
they should be well fed and not over
worked. 1t is important to have the
new coat on before the active farm work
begins, as the changing process is debli-
tating.
1t is said that the milk, after the cream
has been taken from it, retains the ele-
ments which most COWS find deficient in
their food, and it is therefore profitable
to seed milk to the COW after it has been
skinned.
A. F. Hunter says in american Culti-
retor, that if one has q warm sunny
room in a stable or hen-house that he can
devote to early chicks, then money can
be made on them; but for the average
farmer he does not believe the business
will pay.
Sores and loss of skin by sloughing
away on a pig indicate such seriously
unhealthy condition of the animal that
the meat is not fit for food. The pig
may as we'll be killed and buried; it is
waste of food to feed it. The disease is
scrofulons, and is communicated to per-
sons by the use of unhealthful meat.
There are in the year but 265 days for
the laying hens, one hundred being con-
sumed in the process of molting. How
ever no hen can be expected to lay an
egg every day, and if she devote any
time to incubating duty, it will keep her
pretty busy to produce ten dozen eggs
year, though her brood be soon weaned
from her.
A good garden, we'll supplied with
choice varieties of vegetables and fruits,
is one of the greatest luxuries of the farm
and household. There is no farmer but
can afford to have just such garden; no
farmer can afford to be without one. A
good garden and good COW wall go
long way toward supplying the table
with good, wholesome food for the
family
Professor Riley is reported as prevent
ing the cut-worm on cabbage by means
of poisoned leaves of cabbage, turnip or
lettuce placed ten or fifteen feet apart
over the surface of plot few days be-
fore planting. The leaves are dipped
in solution of tablespoonful of paris
green mixed with pail of water. which
is kept well stirred. Two applications,
three or four days apart, clear the field Of
cut-worms
Much straw in the barnyard is only so
slightly mixed with manure that it seems
scarcely worth hauling far for its fertil-
izing value. But it is excellent as mulch
for newly-set trees, spreading it as far as
the roots extend, which the first season
will be somewhat farther every way than
the holes in which they are planted. This
will prevent evaporation of moisture from
the soil, besides letting rains percolate
through the mulch to the tree roots with
out hardening the surface of the soil.
There is great advantage in closely
following the plow with seed, especially
where the small grains are sown. The
soil is then always moister than it is after
laying few days in furrow, exposed to
sun and drying winds. Unless too wet
for good plowing the newly turned fur
row mellowed by dragging is better
seed bed than 1t will be few days later
All the small grains require rather cool
soil to gcrminate in, as it makes broad
spreading growth and favors tillering.
Giving time for the soil to warm deeply
encourages a spindling upright growth